What is Cyder

Funny you should ask this question, I'm asked it quite a lot and usually fail to give a comprehensive and elegant answer. The best I can do is something along the lines of "Cyder is a multi-purpose, desktop manager, GUI tool." It is written using a custom Swing UI library which was built on top of lightweight Swing components. No modern GUI dependencies such as FlatLaf, MaterialFX or FXML were used, thus all Cyder components are closely related to java/awt/Component.java.

Some examples of what you can do with Cyder include:

• Downloading Audio from a YouTube video, playlist, uuid, or link
• Image transforms, markup, and painting
• Evaluating mathematical expressions as simple as 2 2 or as complex as sin(e^picos(64^cos(e^-1)))
• Visualizing algorithms such as A*, Graham Scan, Game of Life
• Converting audio files between formats such as wav and mp3
• Playing local audio files with the ability to "dreamify"
• Hashing inputs with a nice hashing widget using algorithms such as MD5, SHA1, and SHA256
• Reading, writing, and storing notes
• Demonstrating how Perlin noise works in both 2D and 3D with a visualizer
• Converting between temperature formats such as Kelvin, Fahrenheit, and Celsius
• Storing and running shortcuts
• Playing games such as hangman or nxn tic-tac-toe

Screenshots

Cyder Console

Weather Widget

Paint Widget

Usage and Setup

To get started with Cyder, first download your favorite Java IDE such as IntelliJ, NetBeans, Eclipse, etc. You'll then want to make sure the IDE supports gradle operations. Next, clone Cyder via git clone https://github.com/NathanCheshire/Cyder.git --depth 1. If you don't absolutely require the entire git history, I highly recommend shallow cloning as the extensive git history is quit large. Now load the project in your IDE and allow the gradle setup task to run and the IDE to synchronize. Now you'll be able to run Cyder by a runtime configuration which invokes the main method inside of Cyder.java. Once started, Cyder should recognize there are no users found and prompt for the creation of a user. Go ahead and create an account now.

For development purposes, you may want to add three props within a props file:

1. autocypher set to true.
2. autocypher_name set to your user's username.
3. autocypher_password set to your user's hashed password (hash your password once using SHA256).

These props should be annotated with the @no_log annotation to ensure their values do not appear in any log files. Additionally, your the props file containing your password should be added to your .gitignore file to avoid VCS tracking. Cyder double hashes passwords to help prevent rainbow table lookups. However, leaving your singly-hashed SHA256 autocypher password exposed leaves you more prone to attacks.